[int_19h]

Given that WSL is pretty much just Linux, I don't see what relevance Visual Studio compiler versions have to it. WSL binaries are always built using Linux toolchains.

At the same time, even on Windows, libc has been stable since Win10 - that's 10 years now. Which is to say, any binary compiled by VC++ 2015 or later is C-ABI-compatible with any other such binary. The only reasons why someone might need a specific compiler version is if they are relying on some language features not supported by older ones, or because they're trying to pass C++ types across the ABI boundary, which is a fairly rare case.

[m_kos]

If you have to use, e.g., CUDA Toolkit 11.8, then you need a specific version of VS and its build tools for CUDA's VS integration to work. I don't know why exactly that is and I wish I didn't have to deal with it.

[int_19h]

It's a CUDA-specific thing. But that would still be on the Windows side, not in WSL tho?